Wednesday, July 24, 2013

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE ACTIONS 07/23/2013

DAILY FLOOR WRAP UP
 
July 23, 2013
 
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
 
Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 312 — "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2397) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2610) making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes." – ADOPTED 229 – 190
 
H. Res. 312 — "Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2397) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2610) making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, and for other purposes." ADOPTED 226 – 194
 
Walberg (R-MI) - Amendment No. 1 - Increases funding for the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response by $10 million and reduces funding to the Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide account by $11 million. – ADOPTED BY VOICE

 
Delaney (D-MD) - Amendment No. 2 - Increases Fisher House Account by $16 million, decreases Operation and Maintenance Account Defense-Wide by $25 million; Difference in values maintains outlay neutrality. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Grayson (D-FL) - Amendment No. 4 - Increases the Defense Health Program Account by $10 million to specifically target finding a cure for Gulf War Illness which directly affects over one-fourth of veterans from the first Gulf War. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Israel (D-NY), King (R-NY) - Amendment No. 5 - Increases by $10 million the Defense Human Resources Activity account for the purpose of enhancing DOD efforts in mental health research, treatment, education, and outreach and reduces the same amount from the Office of the Secretary of Defense account. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
En Bloc 1 – Nos. 6, 32, 76 – 82 – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Langevin (D-RI) - Amendment No. 7 - Reduces the appropriation for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $5 million and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Defense-Wide for the purpose of restoring the funding for Cyber Security Advanced Research to the amount requested in the President’s Budget. – NOT OFFERED
 
Langevin (D-RI) - Amendment No. 8 - Reduces the appropriation for Operations and Maintenance, Defense-Wide by $22 million and transfers this amount to RDT&E, Navy for the purpose of supporting development, demonstration, evaluation and fielding of promising undersea technologies in RDT&E Project Number 2033, for Advanced Submarine Systems Development. – REJECTED BY VOICE
 
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 9 - Increases funding for Defense Health Program account (intended for PTSD) by $500,000 offset by a similar reduction in the Environment Restoration, Army account. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 11 - Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $1 million and transfers the same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. – NOT OFFERED
 
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 12 - Reduces funding for Procurement, Defense-Wide, by $2 million and transfers the same amount to the Spending Reduction Account. – WITHDRAWN
 
Jackson Lee (D-TX) - Amendment No. 13 - Increases the Defense Health Program's Research and Development account by $10 million and reduces the Defense Procurement-Wide account by the same amount. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
En Bloc 2 – Nos. 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 – ADOPTED BY VOICE 
 
Pocan (D-WI) - Amendment No. 16 - Makes available from amounts available for the Department of Defense for research, development, test, and evaluation $10,000,000 for applied research to improve the safety of advanced batteries, specifically lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. – WITHDRAWN
 
Heck (R-NV) - Amendment No. 18 - Transfers $15,000,000 to Defense-Wide RDTE for producing the Iron Dome short-range rocket defense program in the United States, including for infrastructure, tooling, transferring data, special test equipment, and related components. – ADOPTED BY VOICE 
 
Lujan Grisham (D-NM), Lamborn (R-CO) - Amendment No. 19 - Reduces RDT&E by $10 million and adds $10 million to RDT&E for Operationally Responsive Space (ORS). – WITHDRAWN
 
Shea Porter (D-NH), LoBiondo (R-NJ) - Amendment No. 21 - Designates funding to study the Therapeutic Service Dog Training Program, which was directed in House Report 113-102 accompanying the FY14 NDAA. – ADOPTED BY VOICE 
 
O'Rourke (D-TX) - Amendment No. 22 - Strikes Section 8058. – REJECTED BY VOICE
 
Bonamici (D-OR) - Amendment No. 26 - Provides $30 million for the purchase of emergency response medical equipment sets for National Guard M997A3 HMMWV ambulances to ensure they carry adequate life-saving equipment. – WITHDRAWN
 
Gabbard (D-HI) - Amendment No. 3 - Increases funding for the Navy Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare weapon and Air-Launched Long Range Anti-Ship Missile program by $104,000,000, and reduces Operations and Maintenance, Defense-wide by the same. REJECTED 50 – 372  
 
Blumenauer (D-OR), Gabbard (D-HI) - Amendment No. 10 - Restores funding for Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense Sites to FY 2013 levels so that DoD can clean up and remediate UXO in a timely and safe fashion. REJECTED 176 – 242
 
Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 14 - Strikes $107,000,000 for 14 Ground-based Interceptors and reduces the deficit by the same amount. – REJECTED 141 – 272  
 
Blumenauer (D-OR), Conyers (D-MI) - Amendment No. 15 - Reduces funding for the Ohio-class submarines by 10 percent to help prepare the Department of Defense for the sequestration. – REJECTED 49 – 372
 
Nugent (R-FL) - Amendment No. 17 - Reduces appropriations for Defense-wide rapid innovation and increases the appropriations to develop a high power microwave cruise missile weapon. – REJECTED 93 – 327
 
Nadler (D-NY), Garamendi (D-CA), Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 20 - Cuts $70 million of unrequested funds for the East Coast Missile Defense site and dedicate that funding to deficit reduction instead. – REJECTED 173 – 249
 
Moran (D-VA), Smith (D-WA) - Amendment No. 23 - Strikes sections 8107, which prohibits funding to transfer or release any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into the United States, its territories, or possessions. Strikes section 8198, which prohibits funding to transfer any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a country of origin or other foreign country or entity unless the Secretary of Defense makes certain certifications. Strike Section 8109, which prohibits funding to modify any United States facility (other than the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) to house any individual detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. – REJECTED 175 – 247
 
Poe (R-TX) - Amendment No. 25 - Cuts funding to Pakistan by $600 million. – REJECTED 186 – 237
 
Walberg (R-MI), Cohen (D-TN), Esty (D-CT), Rigell (R-VA) - Amendment No. 27 - Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by $79 million and transfer the savings to the Spending Reduction Account. – ADOPTED 283 – 139
 
En Bloc 3 – Nos. 31, 68, 85 – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Poe (R-TX) - Amendment No. 34 - Eliminates the waiver to conditions on aid to Pakistan. – NOT OFFERED
 
Scalise (R-LA) - Amendment No. 37 - Prohibits the Department of Defense from entering into any new contracts for the procurement or production of non-petroleum based fuels for use as the same purpose or as a drop-in substitute for petroleum. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Terry (R-NE) - Amendment No. 38 - Prohibits the Department of Defense to spend any appropriated funds in FY14 to enforce Section 526 of the Energy Independent and Security Act of 2007. – WITHDRAWN
 
Wittman (R-VA) - Amendment No. 39 - Provides that none of the funds made available by this Act may be used to propose, plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round. – REJECTED BY VOICE
 
Broun (R-GA) - Amendment No. 40 - Prohibits the Department of Defense from using any funds to propose, plan for, or execute an additional Base Realignment and Closure round involving military installations located within the United States. – NOT OFFERED
 
Cole (R-OK), Kilmer (D-WA), McCarthy (R-CA), Bishop (R-UT), Jones (R-NC), Loebsack (D-IA), McCollum (D-MN), Austin Scott (R-GA) - Amendment No. 42 - Provides that none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of Defense federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund (WCF) Account, which is a revolving fund and does not receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance its operations. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Cole (R-OK), Kilmer (D-WA), McCarthy (R-CA), Bishop (R-UT), Jones (R-NC), Loebsack (D-IA), McCollum (D-MN), Austin Scott (R-GA) - Amendment No. 43 - Provides that none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to implement a furlough of Department of Defense federal employees who are paid from the Working Capital Fund (WCF) Account, which is a revolving fund and does not receive direct funding from Congressional appropriations to finance its operations. – NOT OFFERED
 
Cicilline (D-RI) - Amendment No. 28 - Reduces appropriations for the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund by $279,000,000 and apply the savings to the spending reduction account. REJECTED 184 – 237
 
Cohen (D-TN) - Amendment No. 29 - Reduces the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from $279 million to $140 million and transfers the savings to deficit reduction. ADOPTED 249 – 173
 
Coffman (R-CO), Garamendi (D-CA), Murphy (D-FL), Cohen (D-TN) - Amendment No. 30 - Decreases the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $553.8M (contract to Rosoboronexport for 30 Mi-17 helicopters) and increases the Spending Reduction Account by the same amount. ADOPTED 346 – 79
 
Garamendi (D-CA) - Amendment No. 33 - Cuts $2,615,000,000 from the Afghan Security Forces Fund. REJECTED 150 – 276
 
Fleming (R-LA), Bridenstine (R-OK), Forbes (R-VA), Jordan (R-OH), Pitts (R-PA), Lankford (R-OK) - Amendment No. 35 - Prevents funds from being used to appoint chaplains without an endorsing agency. ADOPTED 253 – 173
 
Rigell (R-VA) - Amendment No. 36 - Prohibits funds in the Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund from being used to commence new projects. ADOPTED 332 – 94
 
Flores (R-TX), Gingrey (R-GA), Conaway (R-TX), Hensarling (R-TX) - Amendment No. 41 - Prohibits any funds from being used to enforce the selective fuel bans set forth in Sec. 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which expands options for the federal government to purchase fuels by from unconventional sources like California heavy oil resources or Canadian oil sands. ADOPTED 237 – 189
 
DeLauro (D-CT), Moran (D-VA), Wolf (D-VA), McGovern (D-MA), Bridenstine (R-OK), Connolly (D-VA), Garamendi (D-CA), Cohen (D-TN) - Amendment No. 44 - Prohibits funds to train the Afghan Special Mission Wing (SMW) to operate or maintain Mi-17 helicopters manufactured by Russia’s state arms dealer that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction reports the SMW does not have the capacity to use. – ADOPTED 333 – 93
 
Lee (D-CA), Blumenauer (D-OR), Schrader (D-OR), Conyers (D-MI), Polis (D-CO) - Amendment No. 45 - Reduces funding by 1%, excluding the Defense Health Program and Military Personnel Accounts. – REJECTED 109 – 317  
 
Quigley (D-IL) - Amendment No. 46 - Limits funds made available in the bill to operate and maintain no more than 300 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. REJECTED 142 – 283  
 
Denham (R-CA) - Amendment No. 47 - Prohibits funds from being used to implement the Trans Regional Web Initiative. REJECTED 185 – 238
 
Terry (R-NE) - Amendment No. 24 - Increases Defense wide O/M by $1 billion, while reducing funding in the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund by $2.6 billion. The reduction would be in order to give DOD more flexibility to offset civilian furloughs. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Jones (R-NC) - Amendment No. 48 - Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, without being approved by Members of Congress. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Jones (R-NC) - Amendment No. 49 - Restricts the use of funds approved by this Act from being used to carry out activities under the United States - Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement. – WITHDRAWN
 
Kline (R-MN), Polis (D-CO), Paulsen (R-MN) - Amendment No. 50 - Prohibits funds to carry out recent DOD recruitment policies in contravention of congressional intent in the Fiscal Year 2012 NDAA and to ensure all students are given the same opportunities to enlist in the armed forces. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
LaMalfa (R-CA) - Amendment No. 51 - Provides that none of the funds made available in this act may be used to pay any fine assessed against a military installation by the California Air Resources Board. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Lamborn (R-CO), Lummis (R-WY), Daines (R-MT), Cramer, Kevin (R-ND) - Amendment No. 52 - Prohibits the use of funds to conduct an environmental impact study on ICBMs. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Lamborn (R-CO), O'Rourke (D-TX), Barrow (D-GA), Jenkins (R-KS) – Amendment No. 53 -Prohibits the use of funds to implement sequestration-related furloughs of civilian Department of Defense employees. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Meadows (R-NC) – Amendment No. 54 - Prohibits the use of funds for payment of salaries to recess appointees until the appointee is formally confirmed by the Senate. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Mulvaney (R-SC), Van Hollen (D-MD), Coffman (R-CO), Murphy, Patrick (R-FL) – Amendment No. 55 - Reduces funds made available in the Overseas Contingency Operations budget by $3,546,000,000 to better correspond with the President’s request. Protects all amounts made available for the National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment modernization shortfalls for homeland defense and emergency response. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Palazzo (R-MS) – Amendment No. 56 - Prevents any funds from being used to rebase any Air Force, Air Guard, or Air Force Reserve aircraft until 60 days after the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force has submitted its report as required by the FY 2013 NDAA. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Palazzo (R-MS), Nugent (R-FL) – Amendment No. 57 - Prevents any funds from being used to plan for or carryout furloughs of Dual Status Military Technicians. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Rogers, Mike (R-AL) – Amendment No. - Provides that none of the funds made available by this act may be used to carry out reductions to the nuclear forces of the United States to implement the New START Treaty. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Rohrabacher (R- CA) – Amendment No. 59 - Prohibits any funds in the bill from being provided to Pakistan. – REJECTED BY VOICE
 
Stockman (R-TX), Rohrabacher (CA) – Amendment No. 60 - Prohibits participation by the People's Republic of China in joint U.S. military exercises. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Turner (R-OH), Rogers, Mike (R-AL) – Amendment No. 61 - Prevents funds from being used to reduce strategic delivery systems and ensures that the President is in compliance with the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
 
Walorski (R-IN) – Amendment No. 62 - Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used to transfer or release detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Bonamici (D-OR) – Amendment No. 65 - Prevents the retirement, divestment, transfer, or preparation to do so of C-23 aircraft used by the National Guard and to designate $34 million for the sustainment and operation of the C-23 aircraft in a viable state. – VOTE REQUESTED
 
Hanabusa (D-HI) – Amendment No. 66 - Prohibits funds from being used to implement an enrollment fee in the TRICARE for Life program. – ADOPTED BY VOICE

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